Trump's first full month in office brings massive employment boom as U.S.

What a boom, a few temporary jobs added during the building at home boom, and whatever else they fudged to reflect the 'new era under Trump'.

The Stock market is up too, only the rich realize any gain from that. Trump promised an increase to import tariffs, and less of a tax dodge for
companies overseas, my guess is they are bolstering their assets at home on a temporary basis to see how that threat scenario plays out.

Great numbers and even funnier seeing the usual suspects scrambling to explain them away. Now, I wonder would they also have been explaining away the
numbers if they had fallen...? Oh, I am sure they would... after all, they are objective and all.

originally posted by: UKTruth
Honest? Great.
So an excellent start for President Trump then.

Well, honestly it is still Obama's budget, right?

So maybe a good start for Trump from a good hand-off from Obama.

Ummm no if you thought that trillion dollar deficits and insurance premiums
being more unaffordable and groceries going up was a sign of a great economy.... ummm no
Jobs in the private sector is a good sign not made up government bureaucratic jobs for insanely oversized government. That was the New Deal all over
again.
And no the budget is not a sign of a robust economy it's a sign the government didn't shut down.

Trump certainly hasn't done anything about deficits and insurance premiums and, while a nice token, that measly number of jobs, compared to the new
workers in the job market, doesn't seem that great so, which is it?

ETA:

And no the budget is not a sign of a robust economy it's a sign the government didn't shut down.

Nobody said it was. I said that the gov is still running under Obama's budget. Nothing more.

originally posted by: Rezlooper
I know that, as a small business owner who can't afford to provide insurance for my employees, I will no longer be mandated to do so. That's one
example.

Last year, and for three years running, I've had 6 employees kept under 30 hours a week, and this summer we are doubling that to 12. We are in the
planning stages of doubling our business in two months. I wouldn't have even considered this ambitious move last year.

LOL!!!!! Unless you had 50+ full-time employees, you were never mandated to provide them health insurance.

Correct you are. Just trying to make a point. In a few years, it would be nice to employ that many. And now that our country is on a new course, I'm
pretty optimistic... and Confident!

originally posted by: Xcalibur254
It's amazing how the unemployment figures suddenly became accurate the second Trump took office. I mean that must be the case otherwise all people
heaping praise on Trump would be hypocrites.

I won't deny that Trump may be partially responsible for this growth. Not directly of course. That said he was handed the longest sustained job growth
in US history.

I don't know that anyone is claiming the numbers are accurate now, I know I'm not, but the new statistics show an improvement. So, whether they were
off then and off now, they have improved either way. The jobless rate is improving.

CNN kept claiming that if Trump was elected we would be seeing a negative impact on the global economy..

Bizarre. I am commoner. Former Coast Guard. Not trained in economics. I thought Trump would be good for the US economy simply because he's very
good at business, even before he threatened US companies with tariffs for production in Mexico.

And that's a trend that started under Obama. Not only started but thrived to the point that Obama had the longest sustained period of job growth in US
history. But his detractors said the numbers were fudged to make Obama look good.

Now those same people are claiming that job growth numbers under Trump are accurate.

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